Card matches



Patented Feb. 7 1928."

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JOSEPH E. ZOMNIR, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMIONID MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOISjA CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CARD MATCHES.

' Application filed. October This invention relates to that class of card match cards are associated with a flexible protective cover which is folded uponand secured to the margins of the cards in such a manner that each individual splint canv with the marginal portion, as to permit the easy and uniform manual removal of each individual splint without any liability of disrupting the marginal portion or mutilating the adjacent splints, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents a piece of paper matchstock having a transverse row of perforations formed therein preparatory to the cutting and staggering of the splints.

Fig. 2 illustrates a card of match splints, enlarged, as cut from the perforated stock.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the said card.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section, enlarged, as on the line 4- l of Fig. 1. V

Fig. 5 isa perspective view of a match book having cards of matches embodying my invention.

The match card herein illustrated comprises a marginal strip 10 of'paper match material from one edge of which projects a row of splints 11 integral with the strip, which splints are treatedwith parailin and are tipped with match composition in the usual manner to provide a card of matches. During the incision of the web to form the splints the alternate splints are laterally s, 1925. Serial No. 60,869.

spread or staggered at their juncture with the marginal portion,as best seen in Fig. 3, in order to separate their free ends for the ready application thereto of the parafiin. and. head compositions. The respective basal I edges of the splints, when they-are latorally bent or flexed at the marginal strip,

are formed with small tapering nicksor indentations 12 which faci itate the easy and uniform manual separation of the individ-' unl matches from the marginal strip. These indentations being relatively small and t pering do not unduly weaken the splintson the line of fiexure incident to the spreading or staggering of the splints, and hence the.

operation of eiliciently dipping the splints is unaffected- I v f Asflillnstrated in Fig. 1 the web 13 of material from which the successive cards are to be made is Jf ormed with a transverse row of taperingperforations 14 before the operation of cutting and staggering the [splints 11, and ofseparating the card of splints from the line 15.

he row the web to define the basal'ends of arow of splints. and the adjacent perforations are centrally spaced apart correspondingly with the width of a match splint so that the longitudinal incisions of the web by the cutting mechanism, to produce the splints, enter the respective perforations in a man" web along the dotted ncr to'form the described nicks or indcntations in the basal edges of adjoining splints.

The. perforations-13 are preferably produced' in the web by a row ofprop'erly spaced tapering points which are effective to penetrate the web from itsupper to its lower surface, as seen in Fig. 4.

1; A match card comprising sheet, material having a marginal portion anda row of splints projecting therefrominclose edgewise relation, said splints being alternately staggered at their juncture with the of perforations is positioned on iii) marginalvportion and having small, taper-.

ing indentations intheir respective basal edges. 7 l

2. 'A match card comprising sheet material having a marginal portion and a row of splints projecting therefrom in close edgewise relation, said splints being alternately staggered at their juncture with the marginal portion and the adjacent edges of each pair of adjoining splints terminating 

